A Winner Will be Crowned in Event #59: $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack Championship

Christian Zetzsche

After three tournament days and 37 levels of poker action at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, Event #59: $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack Championship has seen a field of 6,140 entries whittled down all the way to the final five, all in their pursuit to become the latest bracelet winner at the 2019 World Series of Poker.

The event was scheduled to play down to a winner on Day 3, however, the remaining five hopefuls will return at 2 p.m. local time for an unscheduled fourth day to determine a champion.

Leading the field into the final day of the tournament is Joe Foresman with 74,600,000, followed by WSOP bracelet winner Will Givens (45,500,000) and Germany's Steffen Logen (30,100,000).

Jeff Hakim (24,300,000) and Gleb Kovtunov (9,800,000) round up the remaining line-up and are no strangers to deep runs in international poker tournaments with more than $1.5 million and more than $700,000 in cashes respectively.

Seat Assignments for Day 4

Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Gleb Kovtunov	Ukraine	9,800,000	12
2	Will Givens	United States	45,500,000	56
3	Jeff Hakim	Lebanon	24,300,000	30
4	Steffen Logen	Germany	30,100,000	37
5	Joe Foresman	United States	74,600,000	93

Kovtunov will be the short stack heading into the day with 12 big blinds at 400,000/800,000 and a big blind ante of 800,000, but an early double up for the Ukrainian would lift him back into contention for the top prize of $397,903 and the coveted gold bracelet.

Stay tuned to find out who will emerge victorious, as the PokerNews team will provide hand-for-hand coverage until a champion is crowned.

Remaining Payouts

Place	Player	Country	Prize (USD)
1			$397,903
2			$245,606
3			$181,953
4			$135,783
5			$102,077
6	Mrityunjay Jha	United States	$77,308
7	David Goodman	United States	$58,988
8	Jean-Francois Alexandre	Canada	$45,348
9	Linda Huard	Canada	$35,128